Nicholas Humphrey

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Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born March 27, 1943 ) is a British psychologist . Until 2008 he was professor at the London School of Economics and at the New School in New York City .

Life

Humphrey attended Westminster School from 1956-61 . His BA (1964) and his Ph.D. (1968) in Psychology from the University of Cambridge . He has held professorships at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and the London School of Economics. Among other things, he studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda. His work on evolutionary psychology has received numerous awards (the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Pufendorf Medal, and the British Psychological Society's Book Award).

family

Humphrey is the son of immunologist John H. Humphrey and his wife Janet Humphrey (née Hill) is the daughter of Nobel Prize winner Archibald Hill . John Maynard Keynes is his great-uncle. He was later married to Caroline Waddington , daughter of CH Waddington . After the separation he lived with Susannah York . He later married Ayla Kohn with whom he has two children.

Publications (selection)

Between 1967 and 1998, Humphrey wrote over 100 scientific publications .

  • Consciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind. Oxford University Press, 1983. (Spanish translation: 1989)
  • Four minutes to midnight. The BBC Bronowski Memorial Lecture, BBC Publications, 1981; Menard Press, 1982. (German, Greek and Russian translations: 1982)
  • with RJ Lifton (Ed.): In a Dark Time. Faber & Faber, 1984, Harvard University Press, 1984.
  • The Inner Eye. Faber & Faber, 1986, Faber Inc, 1987, Vintage, 1993, Oxford University Press, 2002. (Italian and Spanish translations: 1992, Japanese translation: 1993)
  • A History of the Mind. Chatto & Windus, 1992, Simon & Schuster, 1992, Vintage, 1993, Copernicus, 1999. (Portuguese translation: 1995; German translation: 1996; Italian translation: 1998)
  • Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles and the Search for Supernatural Consolation. Chatto & Windus, 1995, Vintage, 1996, Basic Books, 1996, Copernicus, 1999.
  • How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem. Imprint Academic, 2000.
  • The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Evolution and Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2002. (Japanese translation: 2004)
  • Seeing Red: a Study in Consciousness. Harvard University Press, 2006. (Japanese translation: 2006, Italian translation: 2007, German translation: 2008)

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SURNAME Humphrey, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humphrey, Nicholas Keynes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1943